Unknowing
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Unknowing is an adjective meaning Without knowing; ignorant.
Meaning
Without knowing; ignorant.
More Meanings
- Absence of knowledge; ignorance of something.
- (obsolete) Unknown, unbeknownst (to someone).
Example Sentences
And when they had fulfilled the dayes, as they returned home, the chylde Jesus boode styll in hierusalem, vnknowinge to his father and mother.
Only later in the performance do we get that diegetically earlier moment, the moment when still earlier questions, fears, knowings, and unknowings congeal into the medical diagnosis of “positive.”
Word Forms
- unknowings
Synonyms for unknowing
Depending on context, synonyms include ignorant, nescience, unwitting, unknowledgeable, uninformed, ignorantness.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include unwitting, unknowingness, uninformed, nescience, ignorantness, unknowledgeable.
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